#the new dance of the dragons

[kaoribriefs]

"They were dancing. In my dream. And everywhere the dragons danced the people died." -Arianne I , TWOW

Euron, (f)Aegon, Dany, Jon.

[lloydskywalkers]

rewatching drs2 and this is still so funny to me. we already knew lloyd was a disaster and kai's...doing that. but Cole you have no excuse you have multiple episodes where it's clearly stated and shown you're a dancer what is this

[zorangezest]

过蛇年了，新年快乐！happy chinese new year! ofc I had to dress up my kids for the occasion!

[iron-sparrow]

祝您 ⸺ wishing you ⸺ 新年快樂 a Happy New Year in good health 身体健康 and prosperity year after year 年年有餘 ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚.

ft. @lynxden

Lunar New Year is upon us, and while I currently live in a place that does not give us weeks of PTO to celebrate accordingly, I've been eating pineapple cakes and sticky rice cakes for well over a week now. Yum. (Mooncakes are notably not consumed on LNY but during the Mid-Autumn Festival.)

I've not been feeling especially celebratory. Between the fires in my backyard and the current admin holding my passport hostage, the start of the solar calendar year has sent me spiraling into survival mode almost immediately. I am doing my best to draw from the well of my support systems, from kindred spirits to a very good (and expensive) therapist I've finally reached out to again.

Lunar New Year. Spring Festival. Chinese New Year. Whatever you and yours call it, the holiday is meant to be a hopeful time, when we anticipate the eventual transition from winter to spring. I will give hope where I'm able, and I will persist. I hope you will also hold onto yours and persist.

I am determined to hold hands with my anger, and to continue knowing it. We will go into the New Year together as allies. Still, I want to offer you this famous poem about hope, written by historical figure Yu Qian.

《除夜太原寒甚》 寄語天涯客，輕寒底用愁。 春風來不遠，只在屋東頭。

"An Extremely Cold Night in Taiyuan on New Year’s Eve" Please tell the friends living afar, the weather is chilly but no need to worry. The spring wind is arriving and quite close to us, touching the eastern end of our house.

[tvheit]

恭喜發財 🧨 新年快樂 💥

大家身體健康大吉大利年年有餘心想事成 💖

have a blessed year of the snake everyone; wishing you good health, wealth, luck, and all your dreams come true! 🐍🍊🧧

[an-established-butt-dent]

The Veil is thin tonight-

-Can you feel it on your skin?

Tingling?

Ink and fineliner on paper

Available as Print

[alicentsaegon]

The Marriage of Aegon III and Jaehaera Targaryen.

They are so Henry VII Elizabeth of York coded...

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

Something that’s always missing whenever people talk about Lyanna and the Kingsguard at the Tower of Joy is that these things should always circle back to Jon Snow. He’s our main character here. Rhaegar and Lyanna, as well as the Kingsguard, are all dead. They were dead before this story began. This tiny section of text is meant to give color to Jon — who is alive, and whose story is currently unfolding. The events at the Tower of Joy, told entirely through Ned’s fever dream for a reason, essentially serve as one thing: fantasy protagonist myth building 101. Three wise men, a legendary magical sword, some of the greatest knights of an era, a dying queen lady, the end of an age, a dead prince, a dead king, and then here comes a soon to be completely orphaned prince whose life hangs on the balance and whose survival depends on the compassion of one lord and his wizard friend. GRRM is literally retelling King Arthur’s backstory through Jon. This whole thing is one giant literary allusion to Uther and Igraine and the boy king Arthur, to Lancelot and his Joyous Guard, to Guinevere, and to tragic romances. It reads as an ode to Arthurian fantasy and is meant to backdrop the main protagonist’s fantastical origins. The Kingsguard are there to play into that. Their presence at the Tower, in that moment, was never about Lyanna; not solely, anyway. Their presence is tied to Rhaegar’s last surviving male child, and the language used suggests that they had chosen their king, for better or worse. Any discussion surrounding the Kingsguard’s presence at the Tower that focuses on anyone but Jon completely misses the point imo.

[godbirdart]

brief break from work today for new year festivities! a lion spat candy at me today so this is very good day ;w;

[orykorioart]

I’ve been wanting to draw this silly Dragon Dancer Rai and Lion Dancer Lee thing since last LNY but never had the time - so here it is now for this year!

+ Some extra sketchies as well - Happy Lunar New Year!!

[navree]

"rhaenys could have ended the war by dracarysing all the greens right there" yes because a distant relation to the throne deciding to barbecue an anointed and publicly positively hailed king and his entire family who is well loved within the city and in multiple other parts of the country for the sake of the succession of a far-away princess no one was ever on board with who hasn't been seen by the populace in literal years, her psycho husband, her three obvious bastards, and two toddlers from the psycho husband would go over super well with westeros and especially in king's landing where scores of the still-cheering population were killed for no reason by that same dragon who would do the barbecuing, because when targaryens act unilaterally without thinking of how the people would react there's never any problem, which is why the storming of the dragonpit and robert's rebellion were actually just collective delusions dreamed up by readers who hate rhaenyra and not key parts of the story and house targaryen's history that directly contributed to their demise and are intrinsic to the plot

truly team black stans are made up of only the most genius and media literate amongst us

[mintjeru]

happy lunar new year!! may all that you wish for come true 🐉

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[crypticpaw]

Happy New Year of The Dragon!!!

Y'all really thought I'd miss such an important date?! No Way!

I actually do want to make more HTTYD and Toothless art this year, so no better time to start than now!

[backjustforberena]

EVE BEST + maternal (assorted roles, requested by anon) Life In Squares and Maryland footage courtesy of @evebestonline

[visenya-targarye]

not the tour guys

[ansonmountdaily]

Strange New Worlds Dragon Con 2023 Panel (Friday)

Anson Mount talks about the axethrowing place he took his Strange New Worlds co-stars to as a mid-season gift, and how great Celia Rose Gooding's axethrowing skills are! :)

Anson Mount, Celia Rose Gooding, Ethan Peck and Christina Chong at Dragon Con in Atlanta, USA, September 1 2023

Source: Full panel video by ashwar007, Anson's video of Celia